Eclipsing Factionalism: The Missing Story from the Gaza Protests | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 10, 2018 The Gaza border protests must be understood in the context of the Israeli Occupation, the siege and the long-delayed "Right of Return" fo ...

A Tune for Mountain Dulcimer | John Michael Greer

May 2, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- For some time now I’ve been thinking about one of the core patterns underlying recent history here in the United States. It’s a pattern that can be traced from colonial ...

Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as ‘Liberals’ and ‘Progressives’ Go Mute | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 1, 2018 Three more Palestinians were killed and 611 wounded Friday, when tens of thousands of Gazans continued their largely non-violent protests ...

Ghost Signs in New York City (part 1) | Mickey Z.

Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 4, 2018 These days an advertisement can load a discount coupon onto your smartphone as you walk past. But not that long ago, ad men needed paint, s ...

The Original Donald Trump | Frank Rich

Roy Cohn in 1986, a few months before he died. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests -- just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onet ...

Six months In '68: A Drastic Awakening | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 3, 2018 Fifty years has flown by for many baby boomers. So much has transpired, and yet, the first six months in 1968 were the foundatio ...

The Wired Guide To Crispr | Megan Molteni

A CRISPR protein targets specific sections of DNA and cuts them. Scientists have turned this natural defense mechanism in bacteria into a tool for gene editing. Credit: Jenna Luecke and David Steadma ...

A bit of dark chocolate might sweeten your vision | E.j. Mundell

Credit: CC0 Public Domain April 26, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- It may not replace prescription glasses, but a few bites of dark chocolate might offer a slight and temporary bump up in vision quality, ne ...

Why isn’t Juliane Koepcke a household name? | Mickey Z.

Photo source: BBC World Service on Twitter Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 27, 2018 Imagine this: An attractive, white, blonde, smart, tough, and articulate male teenager lives through a plane cr ...

Should Quantum Anomalies Make Us Rethink Reality? | Bernardo Kastrup

Thomas Kuhn used the duck-rabbit optical illusion, made famous by Wittgenstein, to demonstrate the way in which a paradigm shift could cause one to see the same information in an entirely different w ...

The Shamanic View of Mental Illness | Jayson Gaddis

Jayson Gaddis -- Uplift April 26, 2018 Looking Through a Different Lens I am reprinting this from an email I received from Malidoma Some, a West African Shaman whom I’ve had the privilege to meet, dr ...